The Commonwealth Railways were established in 1912, as part of a government department, currently called the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, by the Government of Australia to construct the missing link in the east-west transcontinental railway and the proposed Port Augusta to Darwin railway. It was absorbed into the Australian National Railways Commission in 1975.
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